Style Secret! How To Stretch Your Naturally Curly Hair

Style Secret! How To Stretch Your Natural Curly Hair

It’s not often I write blogs about my natural hair; I tend to leave that stuff for my Instagram. But I had an experience the other day at Devachan, a salon that specializes in curly hair, I just had to share. First, a bit of back story.

As some of you know, I decided to rock my natural hair about 5 years ago after my hair broke off and fell out after years of over-processing. My daughter Casey, is my natural hair role model; I can remember looking at her hair and thinking, “She had to get that from SOMEONE and I carried her for 9 months. Maybe it was me?!” Anyway, I cut the last of the chemicals out of my hair in March 2009 and haven’t looked back.

Wearing my natural hair has been a wonderful journey of self-discovery but it’s also been something of a moving target. There is not a week that god by that I don’t learn something new about my hair. Recently, it was a styling tip.

I have been getting my hair cut and colored at Devachan Salon. But lately, my travel schedule with Sweet Retreats and Exhale has kept me out of the chair. So when I got back there the other day, my ends were in pretty bad shape, not to mention the color. Side note: in the cruelest twist of fate, my colorist was on vacation so while we snipped away the dead ends, the gray is still there.. taunting me.

I also discovered that my regular stylist was no longer with the company so a new guy took care of my locks and just when I thought I knew all there was to know about my natural hair, I learned a little trick about making my curls look longer!

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Rene, I wonder if you remember me? Funny, we’ve been on a similar hair journey. I too gave up processing my hair and went natural too (life after television). Our hair is BEAUTIFUL! What were we thinking? Now as an Exercise Entertainer/instructor going natural is easier to manage. I also avoid shampoo. I’m going to try your hair stretch tip. Thanks and good luck. Love your posts!

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